the same event, as that tremendous storm of northern hail, which, in the phraseology of hieroglyphics, is said by St. John to fall upon men out of heaven during the effusion of the last vial”. 4. Hence again it will follow, that the standing up of Michael the great prince and the chief of the celestial armies, on behalf of the children of Daniel's people and in opposition to the wilful Roman tyrant, is the same, as the figurative manifestation of the Word of God, at the head of the armies which are in heaven, to the battle of that great day of God Almighty, and for the destruction of the Roman beast and the false prophet and the Latin kings: 5. Hence, moreover, it will follow, that the deliverance and restoration of Daniel's people after the accomplishment of their long dispersion is the same, as the allegorical marriage of the Lamb to his long repudiated consort, when now, at the close of the latter three times and a half and during the effusion of the seventh apocalyptic vial, she has made herself ready for her espousals :: 6. Hence, lastly, it will follow, that the synchronical resurrection of those who sleep in the dust of the earth, when they shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt, is the same, partly as the figurative resurrection of the saints at the commencement of the "Dan. xi. 40. with Rev. xvi. 21. doubtedly the kings of Egypt and Syria'. In the latter part of the same vision, we still hear of the kings of the South and the North : and not the slightest hint is given, that any other Powers, than those already mentioned under such appellations, are intended by the two Powers thus designated. Hence I think it manifest; and I feel assured, that any plain unprejudiced reader, who peruses the entire vision from end to end, will equally think it manifest: hence I think it manifest, that the kings of the South and the North, who appear toward the close of the vision, are still the kings of the same South and North who appeared through all the middle part of the vision ; in other words, unless we unhinge and dislocate the whole harmony and homogeneity of the vision for the purpose of making the prophecy speak just what we please, they must inevitably be the kings of Egypt and Syria. Yet, while, on every principle of consistency in composition, the two kingdoms of Egypt and Syria must be intended, throughout the whole vision, by the two kings of the South and the North; we know, from the testimony of history, that those kingdoms have long ceased to be governed by Greek princes. Hence, as they are mentioned toward the close of the vision synchronically with the yet future restoration of Judah, though they must still be the two kingdoms of Egypt and Syria, they will be I Dan. xi. 5–30. 8. The deliverance and restoration of Daniel's people being synchronically and locally connected with the final overthrow of the Roman king in Palestine, whenever the restoration of Judah is in prophecy synchronically and locally connected with an overthrow of some vast confederacy of God's enemies, the overthrow of that confederacy must inevitably be the same as the final overthrow of the number) have supposed most unskilfully; on the generalising principle of mutation adopted by Mede and Newton, that the mighty northern Empire of Russia, simply because it is a great northern Empire, will be that king of the North, who, at the time of the end, combats with the wilful Roman king. Certainly I will not venture to say, that, at that epoch, Russia cannot be the king of the North : because I know not, whether Russia, at that epoch, may not have become possessed of Syria. But this I will assuredly say, that, at no time, can Russia, simply as Russia and merely because Russia is a great northern Power, be the king of the North who appears in Daniel's vision. Should Russia, at the time of the end, have acquired Syria by conquest or negociation; then, doubtless, under the aspect of the existing sovereign of Syria, Russia will have become the prophetic king of the North : but this character would then belong to Russia, not as a mighty Sclavonic northern Power, but solely and exclusively as the sovereign of Syria. At present, whatever may hereafter be the case, Russia, in the phraseology of the prophecy, is nor the king of the north. As for the Power, which, at the time of the end, may be the sovereign of Egypt, it were vain even to conjecture. But, clearly, whatever Power shall then be master of Egypt, whether a native Power in the character of an independent Pacha or a foreign Power whose seat of government is in another country, that Power, in its quality of the Lord of Egypt, will be the prophetic king of the South |